THE KELLOGG PACT

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 10

THE KELLOGG PACT

CONTINUED DEBATE ; A SENATOR'S OPPOSITION! EEITAIN CONDEMNED:; United I'ress Association—By Electric Teli» ■"'■ erapb—Copyright. ' '■■'•■. Australiau I'ress Association. (Received 112 th January, 3 p.m.).... • WASHINGTON, lit* January.; Senator Heed is staging what'may be the "last fight ■" of his' legislative career, due to his .impending retirement, when he opened-his final -.stand againstihe Kellogg Pack 'Reservationists sought to reveal that the Pact wag equal to the United States.recognition of the old order of things i in Europe, established by the Treaty .of Versailles. 'He- ridiculed the' Treaty ■ as a vain effort to establish peace;.by document that in reality was the, official authorisation of any. ■ wars by any nation that wants "to promote it.' : His was the last scheduled debate, and ;tho\ only thing now to prevent aii'early, vo.te would be a filibuster by Senator ■ Reed and his cohorts, some of whom believe that they can defeat the Treaty if thejr are able to stretch the debate";a little longer. While Senator Reed- marched, slowly about the Senate floor ■'delivering a bitter appeal to the committee, the leaders were planning what they will do when the Treaty-, battle da closed. Some quarters are hoping.that a vote may bo reached before to-mor-row night. -•; , . : ;■,■,.;

Senator James Eeed, who is famed as a League of Nations opponent, described the Kellog Treaty as being, so muGlated by reservations that nothing was left to preserve- lasting .peace.- Ha asserted that the treaties'do not'"create goodwill, as they must express' the w.ill already formed, and will to 'maintaia peace was not universal; V'lndia''was rising against Britain, and China against Japan,' while .Germany- ■ arid Austria were discontented under ; the foot of oppression' on their soil.- Egypt was fretting under a stranglehold ";:'by Britain, attributing' exceptions to the Treaty to the' efforts of Britain dur-. ing the negotiations. The '. Senator walked to a largo map placed on an. easel showing tlio British possessions and spheres of interest in bright .colouring,' and ho detailed the scattered world defences of Britain, dwelling upon,. Canada, Bermuda, Jamaicaj and other points near the "United States. He declared that in five hours Britain could destroy the Panama Canal. •_■.■:•■

"In the negotiations Britain had reserved these as spheres of interest-in which she was not.bound," ■.continued Senator Reed.' : "This is what Britain says is not in the treaty. .She.reserves complete freedom of action and mollycoddles this country and says we shall sit quietly" without protection under the Monroe Doctrine so that some South American countries will sign. If this country is ever destroyed it will be by pacifists 1 who "shout 'Peace, peace, peace,' when there is'no peace of the kind they talk about." '■.■■.■